Re: Resending email in Gnus, figuring out charset

[Adam Sjøgren]

Eli writes:

>> Yes. So as I received this email, Gnus should be interpreting the bytes
>> at utf-8. And it seems to be, as they are displayed correctly.
>
> The way they are displayed can deceive.

Ok. If I do C-u g (display the raw article) I see them as \nnn.

>> Ok, if I open the feedbase-email in Gnus, before I press S D r to
>> resend, and move point to → and é in the *Article* buffer, I get:
>
> Did you try all of those characters?  Just one is enough to cause what
> you describe.

No, just the arrow and one of the accented e's. Why would the other
characters be diffent?

I have checked the two other accented e's now, they are reported
identical to the first when I use C-u C-x = on them.

> If none of them shows up as belonging to eight-bit charset, the
> problem could be in how you set up your email encoding (or encoding in
> general).

Could very well be. I haven't set anything up, as far as I know, besides
this:

  (setq mm-coding-system-priorities '(utf-8 iso-8859-1))


  Best regards,

    Adam

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